Safety-pad for horses



E. R. `CABO-ONE. Safety Pad for Horses.

No 235,339. Patented Dec. 14,1880.

NFErERS. FHoTU-LWHOGRAPHgR, WASHINGTON. D c,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

EDWIN R. OAHOONE, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

SAFETY-PAD FOR HORSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,339, dated December 14, 1880,

Application filed September 9, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN R. GAHooNE, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improved Safety-Pad for Horses; and I do hereby declare that the following is a description of the same, reference being had to the following speciiication and accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure I is a top view of my safety-pad, showing semi-perforated holes. Fig. II is a cross-section through the holes on a line, ff, showing the manner in which the pad is constructed by not having the holes c through the cloth b.

The object of my invention is to provide a safety-pad to be used when the horse has a gall or tender skin or sore of any kind.

The invention consists of a safety-pad for horses, composed of a perforated patent or enameled leather top and a lining of impert'orated felt, as hereinafter specied and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, a is the usual leather top of a safety-pad, to which are seWed the straps for fastening to the harness. Said leather portion a has a number of holes, c, perforated through the same, but not through the felt or other soft material, b, used for the purpose of allowing the superfluous moisture to pass off and to keep the tender parts cool.

The perforations not being through the felt, the pad is what may be termed semi-perforated.7 The holes, if through the felt, would help to irritate, and hence I have perforated the leather and keep the felt or other soft material that may be used as soft as possible.

Safety-pads have been used before, some with holes through the cloth and leather, and others Without the holes, which must not be confounded with mine,as holes entirely' through the pad would be objectionable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The improved safety-pad for horses, consisting of the perforated patent or enameled leather top a c and an imperforated felt lining, b, connected thereto, substantially as and for the purpose described.

EDWIN R. OAHOONE. Witnesses:

ERNEsT C. WEBB, EDWIN R. SHORTER. 

